Topic - Chronology of Spectrum in the USSR / CIS.

<b>Topic</b> - Chronology of Spectrum in the USSR / CIS.

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Chronology of Spectrum'a in the USSR / CIS.



                 Year 1990


   While in the West, the computer was
already widespread in Russia about it

                  knew by hearsay. Then
 c very characteristic schiu c talas bike that,
b c supposedly many amerikans_ c Kie and Japanese students

  c had a computer at home, koI c tory helped them with you
  c complement home zada3 c tions. In Russia, if somebody

                  and had a computer, it
officials were children whose parents have repeatedly visited 
abroad. This explains the presence of vehicles in our Soviet 
citizens. Naturally, it was a Spectrum 48 kb, at least Spectrum 
128kb. The machines were imported and p / o on tape. 


                 Year 1991


   A major milestone this year was the emergence of disk 
operating system TR-DOS! Defense industry as a matter of

order to reconstruct the mass production of home computers that 
are compatible with Spectrum'om, is a clone of birth

Spectrum-compatible computers. Happy owners of TR-DOS need to 
adapt the tape-version games to the DOS system. So appear the 
first Hacker: Chernikov, Nikitin, Rodionov, Skorobogatov, 
Vasiliev, Dyupanov etc. Deficiency of the disk version is 
strongly palpable, and new versions are widely spread 
throughout Russia. But a large mass of users is still sitting 
there with a tape-Version Spectrum 48kb! Appear on the market 
businessmen who trade tapes. It was in 1991, the company is 
born Inforkom. She starts from scratch, on the enthusiasm! In 
the magazine "Radio" appeared the first article on Spectrum'e. 
Goes Journal ZX-REVIEW.




                 1992


   In almost every region that produced
or a different model of Spectrum, a primitive
and lamerskoy circuitry: Elbrus, Krasnodar, Byte, Moscow; 
Delta-C; Companion; Magik, Leningrad; Pentagon and others. It 
should be noted the appearance of Pentagon'a who would later 
become the accepted standard in CIS (and even overseas) and, 
perhaps, Leningrad, later reborn in the Scorpion. Along with 
these models appear Xia better: Profi; Scorpion; ATM-turbo. The 
market is saturated disc versions of games. Of the software 
programs should pay attention to the DCU by Rodionov. Spelling 
games nobody has seriously engaged. The price of computers 
falls and they become available to almost everyone! At stores 
that sell computers, is going to many people. Parents no longer 
a problem, what to give her daze birthday! Inforkom feels that 
broke it necessary and promising business. Number of users who 
buy the (then) brochures ZX-Review, has been steadily 
increasing. Advertisement computers "Magik" and "Companion" on 
TV! 


                 Year 1993


   Number of fans Inforkoma and its products exceed all 
possible limits and growing every day! appear first serious 
authoring and literate adaptation. Enters the scene, then 
little known, a team of CODE BUSTERS! In the CIS appeared disc 
version Polish megadem Lira II, and SHOCK, the latter actually

was a shock to everyone, and people are beginning to understand 
that Spectrum is far worse and more car than about her then 
thought! Sales volumes Spectrum remain large,

software on the shelves not lie. Huge demand Game Controllers 
Type Joystick. People play games! Vyacheslav Mednonogov 
released game "Pinocchio." Launched OS IS-DOS. 



                 Year 1994


   Started serial production controller
TR-DOS and fees for connecting music
coprocessor. Everyone who has enough
funds to buy disk drives and are trying to connect. 
Imperfection patterns seen in combustion controllers! Large 
deficit becomes a chip KR 1818VG93, which are bent unimaginable 
price. Connecting musical coprocessor AY, people with fever are 
looking for games, working in co-processor with 48kb! Gradual 
transition of people with 48-s models for 128 or more. Across 
the country organized the first clubs Spectrum fans. Sales 
appear books in Russian like "500 games for

Spectrum, "" Secrets and Passwords "," POKES "and
etc. Thanks Inforkom, people begin to learn BASIC, trying to 
break the program, Many master assemblers ZEUS and GENS.

The furore in the market P / O made megademo SATISFACTION, this 
is the moment can be considered the beginning of birth 
demoscene! Authors megademo - CODE BUSTERS showed everyone that

in Russia we can not program
is worse than behind the hill. At the same time there is a 
whole new level assembler TASM 2.0. Across the country are 
beginning to organize the group, but it is still in infancy. 
From SATISFACTION many know of the existence of the miracle of 
the computer AMIGA! In everyday life firmly embedded new and 
strange expression - "AMIGA RULEZ"! If you know how to create a 
scrolling of the attributes, then you're cool coder! Goes 
electronic journal SPECTROFON. 



                 Year 1995


   All and sundry, write demos and megademy after watching 
SATISFACTION. The basis of any demos of the music and scrolling 
text! Appear excellent authoring: "Star Heritage"; "UFO 1", 
etc. Organized a large number of hakkerskih

groups. All polls go to 128kb and
sit in TASM 3.0 and STS 3.1. Every child
know what the intro and what it eats!
At the front of the system software to create something
unthinkable! During the year it was written as
software (and bad and good), that perhaps this will never 
happen! Inforkom trying to support the authors' developments 
and distribution offers! fuel to the fire poured megademo 
INSULT, CODE BUSTERS again "Done" all they have become leaders

just born demoscene. Organized by the Association for PRESTIGE 
(organizer KAN0). It should be noted the emergence of music 
editor Pro Tracker v2.1 by GOLDEN DISK Corp. - Anything like 
that at the time was not yet. St. - Petersburg

first place tusovka ENLIGHT'95, about which they know only 
"favorites." 

   Company Scorpion goes to the larger arena, the number of 
Scorpion'ov per capita increases dramatically! The problem 
arises incomplete adressatsii port # 7FFD. In St. Petersburg

published the first number of the electronic edition
"ZX-FORMAT".



                 Year 1996


   Been a sharp decline in the life of Spectrum, a store 
computers gradually disappear from the shelves. The point of 
selling software, are closed. People who played enough enough 
and seen enough we shall begin to separate for true fans of 
ZX-Spectrum and others. Others quickly blamed on

486/Pentium, some on the AMIGA. Remain
people who are ready to cut the throat to everyone who
a word to say against the Spectrum! Produced a large number of 
electronic publications (magazines and newspapers), programmers 
write good software. From the West more firm P / O does not do! 
Being developed computer networks. A lot of software comes

through the INTERNET. The people chasing full
quality version. In St. Petersburg for the first time
officially held party ENLIGHT'96, about
which shall inform all.
ENLIGHT'96 gives a small burst of activity. There is a concept 
TRACKMO and EVRODEMO! Spectrum scene firmly stands to his feet 
and shows around the world - who are the best coders on the 
Speccy. Begins comparison of the two PC and AMIGA. Pentagon 
declared a standard. 


                 Year 1997


   Spectrum is stsenovoy and underground car. N / a, not having 
ties to get very problematic! Spectrum fans engaged svapingom. 
On more powerful platforms begins "emulator boom."

Nostalgia for the past tense is haunted, and people are happy 
to chase EXOLON on Pentium'e. Bends the electron mass

books! Ceases to yield the first magazine -
Spectrofon. ZX-REVIEW goes to print
publications in electronic and soon
dies. In St. Petersburg organized ENLIGHT'97,
which gathered nemeryannom number
people from the CIS and even from the West! Organization
party leaves much to be desired. Produced test the computer 
model Sprinter, made of modern technology with the use of 
programmable logic array Company ALTERA. Of the oldest 
manufacturers still only firm Scorpion and NEMO, generating KAY 
256. Despite this, the market goes a sufficient number of 
software, in the main game plan, although there are

system. The younger generation no longer knows
What is Spectrum! The concept of "computer"
equivalent to Pentium.


                 Year 1998


   Level assembly programming
beyond all imaginable limits! In the West, begins era 
adaptation of the Russian software based on Pentagon + TR-DOS

their disk systems! On the Spectrum scene, there are fewer 
people. held in Moscow party FUNTOP'98. First tusovka entirely 
dedicated to Spectrum! ... 


    History to be continued!